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Recently our building was “infested” by one shareholder who lived with a bedbug infestation for months rather than pay for exterminator and wound up spreading bugs to at least 4 other apartments who then had to pay for exterminator. Now 6 months later the same shareholder has new infestation since they did not follow exterminator instructions for cleaning their belongings. Also turns out they did not provide a key to management for inspections until just recently (after they infected the whole line of apartments 6 Months ago). Is Managment responsible for allowing this re-infestation and shouldn’t they cover any exterminator costs?
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Sorry to hear about the bedbug infestation. You do have rights, although they are different if you live in a rental, co-op, or condo. Check out these webpages for more information:
Co-ops and condos: https://www.habitatmag.com/Publication-Content/Legal-Financial/2014/2014-February/Co-op-Board-Bedbug-Responsibilities
Rentals: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/bedbugs.page
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Are you the MA or board member? Your building should higher an exterminator on a monthly basis. Free to the share holders this should be part of your buildings care. If you read up on bed bugs you'll see people are embarrassed by this. It was up to your managing agent to keep this private to reassure the share holder will be kept secret. The exterminator should have checked lets say apts. above and below like a square to see if they spread. By not doing this the bed begs spread. The coop or condo should pick up the tab and include a cleaning service to care for the clothing. The exterminator needs to come back and recheck apts. to make sure the bed bugs are gone. Sometimes it needs a second job done. This service should be free. Best of Luck
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